The Deal

Updated on July 3, 2011

Do you have a deal?

Internet activities fall into two categories: reading Sarah Palin's email and looking for good deals on stuff. We need more stuff. Whatever stuff we currently own pales in comparison to the awesomeness of online offerings. Everybody wants to think they are getting a bargain. Even a reliably delicious can of Pringles tastes better when ostensibly purchased at a discount.

To serve our insatiable lust for deals, web sites spring up like mushrooms under the front porch of a mushroom factory. Every pronounceable combination of the word 'deal' has been folded into a domain name chock full of stuff on sale. Bargains abound.

Sentient shoppers know about popular sites such as woot.com and overstock.com. Woot offers a 'daily deal' while The Big O represents a galaxy of discounted stuff. Somewhere in the industrialized world, over-industrious manufacturers build too many widgets. These nifty sites provide alternate distribution channels. Many shoppers still end up at The Mall, but deal-oriented web sites provide a level of flexibility and anonymity that cannot be matched by a kiosk in a promenade.

The ultimate deal

Here is a great deal

Consider, if you will, one particular deal. The Akribos XXIV Davinci Collection Hand-Wind Mechanical Skeleton Movement Stainless Steel Men's Watch represents a bargain of awesome proportions that can be snapped up at any number of web sites. Aside from being unpronounceable without a pause for breath, this device provides a level of gravitas unrivaled by anything else that can be wrapped around a wrist, except perhaps for a live snake or Oprah.

This watch is cool. It tells the time, but it makes you work for it. A simple glance at the watch face provides no information whatsoever and may induce vertigo. It requires manual winding. In this modern era of digital devices, it's simply analog and elegantly inelegant. You want one.

It must be a bargin - the product name is awesome

Let us parse the polysyllabic product name assigned to this chronograph:

Akribos: Perhaps the company name, but there's no company at Akribos.com

XXIV : Roman numerals make everything more impressive. Even a toilet seems desirable with a few X's and V's appended to it.

Davinci Collection: Everyone knows that Leonardo Davinci loved his watches. He probably owned several of these.

Where can this watch be found?

This watch is such a deal. Yahoo retrieves over one thousand sites that sell it. It's on sale every day, marked down from over 700 dollars to under 70 dollars. Someone is losing money hand over fist. Should we feel sorry for overeager manufacturers who unintentionally flooded the market with super-cool watches? Probably not. It's up to us, as responsible consumers, to relieve the pressure. We have an obligation to own more stuff: here's a great place to start.

How many sites offer this deal?

As any computer geek knows, a web site name (URL) must be unique from all other web site names. The most popular and easily remembered sites end in '.com.' In order to sell watches and other super-deals, a web site name should include the word 'deal.' Entrepreneurs quickly become desperate and imaginative: folding in the word 'deal' becomes challenging. Here are a few sites that will happily sell you the Akribos XXIV Davinci Collection Hand-Wind Mechanical Skeleton Movement Stainless Steel Men's Watch:

dealspl.us

dealsucker.com

dealsvista.com

slickdeals.net

dealighted.com

todaysdod.com

dealsvista.com.

Conclusion

Seize the deal. Look online for daily bargains, real-time sales, and overstock offerings. Jump into the deal-o-rama with your mouse and your credit card. It's all fun and games until someone misses a mortgage payment.

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Comments 9 comments

Your last line really sums up what happened to the country's economic state over the last 20 or so years. Ouch. At least when all is said and done, as you're out and about because there's no place left to go, you'd know what time it was.

nicomp 5 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@Springboard : Indeed, you would always know the correct time.

Austinstar 5 years ago from Somewhere in the universe

Don't get me started with Quibids.com. Talk about being a sucker for a deal!

drbj 5 years ago from south Florida

I don't know how I've managed to exist this long without one of them suckers, nicomp. I'm off to order me an Ackreebose right now. Shall I tell them you sent me?

nicomp 5 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@drbj : Drop my name to get a better deal.

JayeWisdom 5 years ago from Deep South, USA

Dealsucker.com? That name is supposed to inspire confidence? Ha-ha!

I love the way you described the watch, nicomp. I don't even like to wear a watch (if I did, it would be a woman's watch), but this one sounds so intriguing....And, look at that Amazon discount! (I'll bet the wholesale price for that watch is $29.99 or less.) I'll manage to fight myself off this "deal."

Good hub. Up and funny. Jaye

nicomp 5 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

@JayeWisdom : Thank you for your kind words.

htodd 5 years ago from United States

Great post..Thanks

nicomp 5 years ago from Ohio, USA Author

I just found two typos in the first text capsule. Perhaps I need a good deal on a proofreader.